The Liberal Gun Club Forum

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2015 11:26 am**

More institutionalized equating of gun ownership and violence from the administration.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-of ... est-121015

Q Beyond Congress and beyond the presidential candidates, there’s been a lot of conversation on what, from your perspective, would be the other side. Liberty University’s president just came out and said that students should be allowed to bring concealed weapons into dormitories. A number of sheriffs have weighed in across the country, suggesting that they would appreciate the help of the public who have legal guns to carry them in situations like this. Others have suggested that what happened in San Bernardino is proof positive that strict gun control laws don't work. And I just wonder if the President feels as if what’s happened may actually be giving motivation or momentum to gun rights advocates rather than his position.

MR. EARNEST: Well, I guess there is some evidence to indicate this -- the FBI put out information a week or so ago that Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, when many people go shopping, that they actually processed the largest number of background checks for gun purchases in history. So I described this I think in a briefing earlier this week as a tragic irony, that the more that we see this kind of violence on our streets, the more people go out and buy guns. And that is both ironic and tragic.

Clearly the proles aren't buying the shtick of their benevolent government and don't know what they're doing.

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:27 pm**

If they really want people to voluntarily reduce gun purchases, they need to stop beating the sensationalist "gun violence" drum. Publicize the truth about the reduction in such over the past 20 or so years. Stop trying to scare people so much. Scared people look for protection. Since the SCOTUS has ruled that the police are not under any obligation to protect anyone, and most police will tell you that they can't be everywhere all the time, what does that leave?

The government and news media have been the biggest reasons for gun sales numbers lately. Combine constant stories of killings with constant stories of bad police, where does that lead?

Besides...shooting is fun!

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:48 pm**

So gun sales continue to rise and violent crime is at 50-year lows. Shouldn't that be a cause for celebration?

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:23 pm**

senorgrand wrote:So gun sales continue to rise and violent crime is at 50-year lows. Shouldn't that be a cause for celebration?

I would guess it depends on your actual goal or agenda. If it's reduction in violent crime then yes, break out the champagne and balloons.

The fact that they don't do this makes me question the actual goal...

Posted: **Sun Dec 13, 2015 3:59 pm**

Yes, the term "gun violence" really means that guns, not violence, is the problem.

I wonder if the administration would have the same position on "youth violence" ... young people are the problem, not the violence.

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